The Los Angeles Philharmonic unveiled its 2013-2014 season schedule during a media luncheon at Walt Disney Concert Hall on Monday, with music director Gustavo Dudamel and president and CEO Deborah Borda presiding. The season is envisioned, in part, as a celebration of the 10th anniversary of the landmark, Frank Gehry-designed venue, and is a typically ambitious one for the group.

The orchestra's ongoing and thorough commitment to new music is again evident. It will perform 13 commissioned works, 11 world premieres, four U.S. premieres and four West Coast premieres during the season. Among the world premieres will be Frank Zappa's "200 Motels," a multidisciplinary work featuring 15 soloists, dancers, a rock band and symphony orchestra, and never performed in its entirety. Conductor laureate Esa-Pekka Salonen will lead the performance on the 10th anniversary date, Oct. 23.

The 10th anniversary celebrations, dubbed "Inside Out," include three free community concerts in venues to be announced, as well as the first joint concert of Youth Orchestra LA and the L.A. Philharmonic in Disney Concert Hall, Dudamel conducting. Yo-Yo Ma is the solo guest for the opening night gala, reprising his role of a decade ago.

Dudamel will lead 12 subscription programs between October and June, in addition to other programs. In February and March, he conducts a Tchaikovsky Festival, made interesting by the inclusion of the six numbered symphonies, a program devoted to the composer's Shakespearean works (with narration) and the participation of Dudamel's other orchestra, the fiery Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela. Dudamel and the orchestra will also wind up their presentations of the Mozart/Da Ponte trilogy of operas with "Così fan tutte," featuring installations by Zaha Hadid, costumes by Hussein Chalayan and directed by Christopher Alden.

A North American tour takes Dudamel and the orchestra to San Francisco; Kansas City, Mo.; New York; Washington, D.C.; Toronto; Montreal; and Boston in programs featuring a new work by Icelandic composer Daniel Bjarnason, John Corigliano's Symphony No. 1, and pianist Yuja Wang in Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 1, as well as symphonies by Tchaikovsky and Brahms.

The orchestra will also reprise its successful Minimalist Jukebox festival of 2006, with curator, composer and conductor John Adams leading works by Terry Riley (a new organ concerto), Michael Gordon, his own "Naive and Sentimental Music" and other works. Also part of the festival: Grant Gershon conducts the Rome section of Philip Glass' "the CIVIL warS," and Reinbert de Leeuw leads Louis Andriessen's eclectic "De Materie."

A nice touch buried in the barrage: Full-time high school and college students with valid ID can subscribe to the Philharmonic's signature new-music series, Green Umbrella (five concerts), for $50.

For the full schedule or to request a season brochure, call 323-850-2000 or visit laphil.com.

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